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We are very grateful for their time and energies that contribute to this bursary.

✨ How to Apply: To apply for the 2026 bursary, send 3-5 sample pages to andy@conundrumpress.com

🎯 Deadline: December 31, 2025

This bursary is limited to developing and emerging creators but all ages and genders are welcome.

🔥 Check out our Q&A with 2025’s bursary winner, Lynn Oyinloye– link in bio!

🌈 This year's jurists include Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet, Maya McKibbon, and last year's bursary winner Lynn Oyinloye!

📚 This annual bursary, which aims to support these under-represented voices in Canada’s comics industry, provides a $1000 to a Black or Indigenous person living in Canada for the creation and production of a mini-comic.

🎨 The Conundrum Press MiniComic Bursary for Black and Indigenous Creators is now open for submissions!

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New York Public Library includes Katarina Thorsen's SALT GREEN DEATH on their Best New Comics of 2025 for Adults!

It's a great collection of comics so if you're keen to build a TO READ stack for the cozier months on the horizon, the NYPL list is a great place to start.

🔗 in bio for the full list

Join Andy Brown in conversation with Laurie Brown to discuss Andy’s new book Why Fish Piss Matters: On the Last Authentic Bohemia as part of Halifax’s own Afterwords Literary Festival Sunday November 1, 3pm-4pm in Room 301 at the Halifax Central Library!

🔗 in bio for festival details!

Vivi Partridge's QUIET CROSSINGS gets a Kirkus review!!

"Contemplatively ethereal and certain to spark lively debates over its interpretation" - Kirkus

Plus! Toronto! You're invited to QUIET CROSSING's book launch at The Beguiling, October 29, 4-7pm! 🎉

Featuring veteran cartoonists, archival work, and fresh new talents this anthology expands what a graphic short can be.

Featuring a preface by Andy Brown on thirty years of publishing activity at Conundrum, 30×30 collects all the books in the CONUNDRUM 25 pocketbook series in celebration of the 30th anniversary of this highly acclaimed publishing company.

To celebrate another decade of publishing comics, Conundrum presents 30×30: Thirty Years of Conundrum Press, an anthology of graphic shorts from 25 Canadian artists.

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COVER REVEAL! Check out that incredible cover illustration by Adam de Souza!

(continued)... Gerry Post (Limited mobility), Brea Hindy (Disability travel agent and companion) Maddie Adams (Neurodivergent representative), and moderated by Scott Stoneman.

WHEN: October 8, 6:15pm - 8:30pm
WHERE: Lindsay Children's Room, Halifax Cen

The launch includes an artist presentation, book signing, Q&A with Post, as well as a panel discussion on the topic Travelling with a Disability with guests Linda Campbell (Deaf representative), Lui Greco (Blind representative), (continued...)

Image is a black and white poster with a cartoon illustration of a man in a self-propelling wheelchair wearing glasses and a vest. The man is ahead of the viewer, and is looking behind toward the viewer while giving a thumbs up and smiling. The text on the poster reads "Book Launch, Let the Good Times Roll. October 8, 6:15 to 8:15pm, Halifax Central Library, Lindsay Children's Room. A graphic novel exploring travel through the lens of disability and inclusion."

Image is a black and white poster with only text that reads "Featuring: Artist presentation and Q & A with Veronica Post. Panel discussion: Travelling with a disability. With Guests: Linda Campbell (Deaf representative), Lui Greco (Blind representative), Gerry Post (Limited mobility), Brea Hindy (Disability travel Agent and companion), Maddi Adams (neurodivergent representative), Moderated by Scott Stoneman. Book Signing with Veronica Post.

Image is graphic with an illustrated book cover to the left, and a colour portrait photo to the right, side-by-side. The illustrated book cover is for the autobiographical graphic memoir from Veronica Post, Let The Good Times Roll. The black and white illustrated cover depicts two people moving together. The person on the left is a white man in a wheelchair wearing glasses and a vest. The person to the right is a white woman wearing a baseball hat and glasses, carrying a tote bag. Both people are looking fondly at one another as they move forward. The photograph to the right of the book cover depicts a white woman with short brown hair who is looking at the viewer with a slight smile.

TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY! 📚 🚀

Join us in celebrating the launch of Veronica Post‘s THIRD title with Conundrum Press, LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, a graphic novel exploring travel through the lens of disability and inclusion.

(Conundrum Press does not accept or judge submissions to Herizons Magazine Comic Contest. Conundrum Press’ involvement is solely to share and promote the contest out of support for comics creation across Canada)

Their work will be published online and in print in a winter 2026 feature in Herizons. Honourable mentions will receive $150 CAD and their work will be published in print.

Link in bio for more contest details!

With a focus on anti-oppression, topics are related to gender, race, sexuality, ability, and other identity markers that intersect and shape our lived experiences.

Herizons Magazine is currently running a Feminist Comic Contest until October 31, 2025. One winner will receive $600 CAD.

Herizons Magazine has been publishing in Canada since 1992, quarterly in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 territory and is distributed across the country. Herizons publishes on art, culture, and legal/political/community affairs.

Andy Oliver at Broken Frontier with a wonderful review of Cole Pauls' We see stars only at night!

🔗 in bio!

Quiet Crossings - Conundrum Press In Quiet Crossings Selena agrees to help out at the nearby Inn in exchange for a room after crashing her car in the unfamiliar countryside. Located on the edge of the world, the Inn attracts extraordi...

Hello comics people of the internet! Did you know I have a graphic novel coming out? Well I do! And you can pre order it here: conundrumpress.com/product/quie... (or at your local bookstore!)

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The Helsinki Comics Festival also organizes one-on-one portfolio reviews with publishers for emerging comics artists. On Sunday Andy Brown will be doing reviews, from 11am-1pm. Duration for one pitching session is 15 min. Sign up in advance via the link in our bio.

Conundrum Press heads to the Helsinki Comics Festival this weekend, September 20-21! If you're looking for quality Canadian comics, come have a look and fill your boots! 📚 👢

WHEN: Saturday, September 20, 2025, 11:00am -12:00pm
WHERE: Room C400, UBC Robson Square

Programmed by our Guest Indigenous Curator Kayla MacInnis

Moderator: Whess Harman
Reader: Cole Pauls, We see stars only at night

In conversation, they will explore how place, culture, and identity shape creative practice, and how art can be both a vessel for memory and a tool for imagining new futures. Expect an hour of laughter, insight, and inspiration from two of the most inventive Indigenous artists working today.

Cole Pauls’ comics transform northern homelands into worlds of adventure and satire, while Whess Harman’s textiles and text-based works hold both humour and resistance in every stitch and phrase.

Word Vancouver Festival presents:
INKED IN STORY: Comics, Prints & Place

INKED IN STORY brings together two artists who blur the boundaries between the visual and the textual, inviting us to see story as something that lives in images, words, and materials alike.

Join us in celebrating the launch of Veronica Post‘s THIRD (!!!) title with Conundrum Press, LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL, a graphic novel exploring travel through the lens of disability and inclusion.

WHEN: October 8th, 6:00-8:30pm
WHERE: Halifax Central Library, in the Lindsay Children’s Room

Don’t miss out on celebrating Zoé Jusseret’s About the Little Ones @ Lucky’s Books with a book launch and art exhibit!

WHEN: September 12, 2025, 7-9pm
ART EXHIBIT: September 12 – October 20, 2025
WHERE: Lucky’s Books, Vancouver

Join Lynette Richards TODAY, September 5 @ the Halifax Central Public Library for an Author Talk!

WHEN: 2-4pm
WHERE: Halifax Central Public Library

Join Conundrum Press and artists Sofia Alarcon and Veronica Post at the Prairie Comics Festival (PCF) THIS WEEKEND, September 6-7, 2025!

WHEN: September 6-7, 2025. Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday 12pm-5pm
WHERE: Manitoba Museum, 190 Rupert Ave.
ADMISSION: Free!